"scores for researching urban ecologies"
Since 2006, iLAND has brought together groups of dancers, scientists and artists to collaboratively explore urban ecology. Their hybrid methodologies form the basis of iLANDing, an approach to research that engages a sites' many forms of life and interaction. The scores collected in this field guide are both records of past interdisciplinary practice and open questions and offerings to the reader. Elemental and poetic, they draw practitioners into new ways of being. Grounded in movement this book is for anyone wishing to experience the incursion and interweaving of natures in a city, or to decenter anthropocentric habits of perception and navigation
This small pocket-sized book is designed to use as a field guide to research urban and non-urban sites through interdisciplinary scores. The scores – sets of instructions for observing and moving within an environment – are compiled from over 10 years of iLAND's programming.
ix, 165 pages : 20 cm
"A Field Guide to iLANDing contains 75 research scores for urban sites developed over ten years by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature, and Dance. Bringing together artists and scientists, these labs generated hybrid methodologies for an approach to urban ecology grounded in dance and designed for anyone wishing to experience the incursion of nature in a city, or to decenter habitual anthropocentric methods of navigating the world. With an introduction by iLAND founder Jennifer Monson."--Publisher's website